“I became famous as ‘Mess USA’ when my boss — now the president of the United States — tossed me into rehab after I tested positive for cocaine,” Conner wrote for USA Today.

“Rather than strip me of my crown or add to the negative press with a humiliation campaign, Donald Trump surprised me, and shocked the world, when he held a news conference and declared: ‘Tara is going to be given a second chance.’”

“It was 10 years ago that I got out of treatment, and I thank him for my 10 years of recovery,” she said. “I will always be profoundly grateful.”

“He saved my life and, essentially, made me great again.”

Conner said that Trump knows first-hand the damage addiction can do to families, touching on Trump’s brother Freddy, who lost his battle with alcoholism and died in 1981.

“The president vowed in his speech to Congress that ‘We will stop the drugs from pouring into our country and poisoning our youth — and we will expand treatment for those who have become so badly addicted,’” she wrote. “I am confident he will keep his promises. As is the case with one in every three American households, substance-use disorders impacted his own family, and he now has the power to help millions.”

Since receiving treatment, Conner has become an advocate for addiction and recovery.

“My life was the perfect storm for addiction,” she added. “My uncle molested me when I was 3. When I was 14, my parents’ rocky relationship ended in divorce and my grandfather … died.”